Out-of-bounds Write Affecting seamonkey package, versions [,2.14)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
7.01% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SEAMONKEY-2379920
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed21 Nov 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Nov 2012

CVE-2012-5839  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade seamonkey to version 2.14 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. Heap-based buffer overflow in the gfxShapedWord::CompressedGlyph::IsClusterStart function in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, Thunderbird before 17.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

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